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Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State is well aware that there is a raft of alternative proposals and measures which could bring in similar amounts of money. If we are to believe the media, his party has argued for the introduction of some of these measures in order to bring in additional revenue. I was being genuine when I made my opening comments. What is being done is simply wrong. I refer, in...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: No.

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We discussed the issue of fuel poverty on Committee Stage. I agree with Deputy Michael McGrath that this is a poverty issue. Some people will not be impacted on by this increase in the price of a bag of coal or a bale of briquettes, but others will. They do not have a range of options such as being able to fill their tank with oil and turn on the heating. As I said at the finance...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 26:In page 125, to delete lines 15 to 51.I appreciate that the Minister of State is filling in for the Minister for Finance. I had hoped the Minister would be in the Chamber, but I understand he cannot be here. The figures for car sales came out last month. The sector is in serious difficulty, as the figures show. The amendment concerns increases in VRT imposed...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister of State have the price tag?

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We wish.

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is not true.

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I honestly do not know how to respond to some of the comments made by Deputy Lawlor. I am not sure whether his leg injury went to his head, but it seriously affected the information he provided here today.

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We put down this motion to bring to the attention of Government something it has failed to see, because its members have their heads so far stuck in the sand that they fail to realise there is a massive unemployment crisis. Despite the Government being two years in office and despite all its cheerleaders coming in to pump out the party line, it has failed to make any impact whatsoever on the...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Some 87,000 left this State last year and the same number left the year before. That is a failure of political leadership and a failure of every Member in the House who supports a Government with its head stuck in the sand. I got a letter today from an individual who talked about the misery of being unemployed and about having to turn to professional counselling services to try to scrape...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dhéanfaid sé ráiteas maidir le hionadaíocht ó na Gaeltachtaí beaga ar Bhord an Údaráis ós rud é nach mbeidh ionadaíocht lánaimseartha ag Gaeltacht na Mí ar an bhord, agus go bhfuil ionadaithe ón dá Ghaeltacht bheaga eile ainmnithe aige ar an bhord. [13095/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Action Plan for Jobs (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of where the 26,000 employed in aviation according to the jobs action plan work that is airport workers, manufacturing, leasing and so on. [13164/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times he or his representatives have met with representatives of the aviation industry or aviation leasing industry since March 2011. [13165/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Temple Bar Cultural Trust (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will lay before Dáil Éireann the latest report and accounts of the Temple Bar Cultural Trust, formerly Temple Bar Properties Limited. [13413/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Temple Bar Cultural Trust (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set out in tabular form the list of properties controlled by the Temple Bar Cultural Trust, formerly Temple Bar Properties Limited; and if he will designate if each property is presently rented or vacant. [13414/13]

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Inné, d'fhógair an Rialtas an plean úr ó thaobh dul i ngleic le cruachás na morgáistí. I ndiaidh dhá bhliain gan aon rud a dhéanamh, nuair atá dúblú tagtha ar méid na ndaoine atá in riaráistí morgáiste 90 lá nó níos mó, tchímid go bhfuil an plean sin lochtach san dóigh...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: This is not the first time that the Government, and indeed the previous Government, have brought forward a plan to deal with the mortgage crisis. When Deputy Martin's party was kicked out of office there were 120,000 families in mortgage distress. Every plan that the previous Administration and this one have brought forward has failed because it has left the decision up to the banks. The...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: -----prescriptive about the solutions that were offered. He spoke about debt write-downs but he has not firmly placed it as an option for the banks. Why has the Minister not considered taking the veto off the banks and establishing an independent agency that could compel the banks to accept solutions which they have so far not being willing to accept?

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Government has taken a hands-off approach to this. The targets will be set by the Central Bank which is independent and these will be supervised by it. However, the Central Bank cannot compel a bank to prescribe a set of options. The only action the Central Bank can take in the plan announced by the Minister yesterday is to force the banks to make provisions against the losses of the...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The banks have already been recapitalised to do that, so it is not a significant threat. Will the Minister accept that at the core of the mortgage crisis is the issue that people's incomes have dropped substantially? Some of this has happened because of unemployment. For others, it is because the Government's budgetary polices have picked their pockets of disposable income. Will the...